This paper demonstrates the importance of a high perceived quality for brands and delves into ways for strengthening it, as well as examining the global trends which affect a consumers’ decision, particularly in the Russia. Taking into account these trends, the authors study the factors behind...

According to the processing fluency model, advertising exposures enhance the ease with which a brand can be recognized and processed. This increased perceptual fluency in turn leads to more favorable attitudes toward the brand. The present research extends the processing fluency model to examine...

This paper presents a visual perspective on consumption. Following the interpretive turn in management and marketing scholarship, my research on the production and consumption of images draws from art history, photography, and visual studies to develop an interdisciplinary, visual approach to...

The benefits to a corporate sponsor of two types of philanthropic activities - cause promotions and advocacy advertising - are examined. Results from four laboratory studies indicate that perceptions of corporate sponsorship responsibility (CSR) are affected by consumers' elaboration levels....

This research proposes an analytical model of the joint optimization of coupon face value and duration together with the product price, and determines the impact of coupon design on consumers’ redemption behavior. A model of rational forward-looking consumers’ redemption behavior is derived...

In a very frequent buying situation, consumers have to choose among products with very similar intrinsic attributes. Under these conditions they must rely mainly on extrinsic product attributes. The authors examine the relative importance of brand, an extrinsic attribute, and an intrinsic...

With the proliferation of social media, questions have begun to emerge about its role in providing marketing insights. In this research, we investigate the potential to “listen in” on social media conversations as a means of inferring brand sentiment. Our analysis employs data collected from...

Drawing on numerical cognition research, weidentify a set of multi-context numbers (MCN) that originatefrom the decimal (10), duodecimal (12) and sexagesimal(60) numeral systems frequently used in numerousdomains (e.g., 10, 12, 20, 24, 60, 360, 100). We proposeand show that inclusion of MCN in...

Little is known about how different types of advertising affect brand attitudes. We investigate the relationships between three brand attitude variables (perceived quality, perceived value and recent satisfaction) and three types of advertising (national traditional, local traditional and...

Objective – Brand equity and green marketing are becoming increasingly relevant to brand competition. Brand equity and green marketing of a product are able to influence a customer’s purchasing decision. This study aims to test the relationship between brand equity, green marketing, and the...